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From: jones@optilink.UUCP (Marvin Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Where to get cheap documantation?
Summary: buy direct IF ...
Keywords: Inside Mac documentation, cheap, used?
Message-ID: <2989@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jan 90 19:05:21 GMT
References: <1288@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <1990Jan15.220527.18855@planck.uucp>
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Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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In article <1990Jan15.220527.18855@planck.uucp>, summers@falcon.uucp (Mike Summers) writes:
> I would like to get a full set of Mac documentation (Inside
> Mac etc.). How can I save money doing this? Does anyone have
> used documentation they wish to sell? What abou mail order
> houses?

Discounts on books are hard to come by.  There just isn't very much mark-up 
to work with at the retail sales level.  About the best you can find is 15% 
or so.  Since the full developers documentation package from Addison-Wesley 
approaches $400-$500 (depending on which types of peripheral support docs you 
may want), you may be able to talk a local bookstore into a heavier discount 
if you special order them all at once.  

In my case, a relative works as an editor for Addison-Wesley, so I ordered 
through her.  Employees get a full 50% discount.  Boy, what a windfall that 
was!  If you are lucky enough to have an A-W contact .... go for it!.  

Regards, 

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